If you use InDesign styles like paragraph and character styles, which hopefully you do,…maybe object styles once in a while, table and cell styles are going to…look pretty familiar to you.…The basic approach is the same.…But there are a couple of limitations in table and cell styles that I know…really threw me off when I started trying to learn them and I wanted to…share them with you.…We're going to cover the details of the how-to and other videos in this chapter,…but I wanted to point out a couple of things upfront, so that hopefully you…won't get discouraged by trying to use table and cell styles.…But, we'll end up really appreciating your power and speeding up your table formatting.…

I'm going to open the Table Styles panel and that lives under the Window >…Styles menu and here we can see I have one table style in this file.…If I click on this table, that's the style that's applied to it.…And just like other styles, we can right mouse-click to edit this style, and it…has the same general setup with different things here that you can control.…

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1/13/2012

This course explores the powerful but occasionally mysterious table features in InDesign, illustrating how they can be used efficiently and to their best advantage. Author Diane Burns demonstrates how to set up a table, format it using Table commands, and capture that formatting in table styles as well as how to work with images and update the information in tables without losing formatting. The course also shows how to use tables that don't look like tables to offer solutions to layout problems, like setting up images and captions or simplifying complex text frames.